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Paige L. Kemp; Vanessa M. Loaiza; Colleen M. Kelley; Christopher N. Wahlheim – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
The efficacy of fake news corrections in improving memory and belief accuracy may depend on how often adults see false information before it is corrected. Two experiments tested the competing predictions that repeating fake news before corrections will either impair or improve memory and belief accuracy. These experiments also examined whether…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Older Adults, Beliefs, Misinformation
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Roberts, Kim P.; Wood, Katherine R.; Wylie, Breanne E. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
One of the many sources of information easily available to children is the internet and the millions of websites providing accurate, and sometimes inaccurate, information. In the current investigation, we examined children's ability to use credibility information about websites when learning about environmental sustainability. In two studies,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Memory, Metacognition, Critical Reading